After the Crown Prince's Death, She Became Empress Dowager

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Jing Yu transmigrated and discovered that she had arrived in an alternate Zhou dynasty, becoming one of the concubines of the Liang Crown Prince, who was being held hostage in the Jin capital.

Her son had just turned one, and the frail Liang Crown Prince died young. Jing Yu was completely stunned.

After going through one ordeal after another, she finally made it back to Liang with her son. But when she saw with her own eyes the impoverished little state on the western frontier and the dwindling royal family of Liang, Jing Yu was speechless all over again.

At first, the four feudal states of Jin, Jiang, Yan, and Jing, east of Mount Xiao and proud of their status as great powers, paid no attention to Liang, a poor state bordering the western Rong. They even mocked the little western state, which had risen to prominence by raising horses for the Son of Heaven of Zhou, calling its people uncouth, ignorant of literature, and barbarian.

Then, when the twenty-year-old Liang Crown Prince died young while being held hostage in the Jin capital, one of his low-born concubines returned to Liang with their only young son. After an immortal supposedly touched her head and filled her with wisdom, she became a genius of the highest caliber. The four great states laughed uproariously, saying the people of Liang were so desperate to become powerful that they had gone mad, spouting lunatic nonsense without a second thought!

And yet...

With the full support of the King of Liang, that humble concubine, who claimed an immortal had touched her head, launched sweeping reforms in the Liang capital, from grinding wheat with millstones to upgrading farm tools, from equipping warhorses with horseshoes to inventing papermaking and printing. The four great states watched helplessly as one strange new invention after another, each capable of strengthening a nation and benefiting its people, poured out of the western frontier barbarian state. Before they could even figure out what was happening, the former little barbarian state had become their equal in power!

The four great states: "!!!"

By the time the four great states finally realized what was happening and tried to form an anti-Liang alliance to lock the ever-stronger Liang inside the passes, the once kitten-sized state on the western frontier had already grown into a fierce power, as ferocious as a tiger. Without a sound, it had reached the borders of the four states, its armies massed at their gates!

Jin is in danger!

Jiang is in danger!

Yan is in danger!

Jing is in danger!

Note: This blurb was written on November 7, 2025, and supplemented on December 4, 2025. Screenshots have been archived.

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